Flip the script : European hip hop and the politics of postcoloniality / J. Griffith Rollefson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rollefson, J. Griffith, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--Europe, Western.

Hip-hop.

Postcolonialism and music.

Music--Europe, Western--African American influences.

Music.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 295 pages) : illustrations, music.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its creators-primarily African American-to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is also a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United State it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles. Flip the Script offers a close look at the role of hip hop in Europe, where it has become a politically powerful and commercially successful form of expression. Through analysis of recorded music and other media, as well as interviews and field-work with hip hop communities, J. Griffith Rollefson shows how this music is deployed by Senegalese Parisians, Turkish Berliners, South Asian Lonfoners, and countless others to both differentiate themselves from and relate themselves to their dominant cultures. By listening closely to the ways these postcolonial citizens in Europe express their solidarity with African Americans through music, Rollefson shows, we can literally hear the hybrid realities of a global double consciousness Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: hip hop as postcolonial art and practice

"J'accuse": hip hop's postcolonial politics in Paris

Nostalgia "en noir et blanc": Black music and postcoloniality from Sefyu's Paris to Buddy Bolden's New Orleans

Musical (African) Americanization: strategic essentialism, hybridity, and commerce in Aggro Berlin

Heisse Waren: hot commodities, "der Neger bonus," and the commercial authentic

M.I.A.'s "terrorist chic": Black Atlantic music and South Asian postcolonial politics in London

Marché noir: the hip hop hustle in the City of Light

"Wherever we go": UKhip hop and the deformation of mastery

"Straight outta B.C.": differance, defness, and Juice Aleem's precolonial Afrofuturist critique

Conclusion: hip hop studies and/as postcolonial studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226496351

022649635X

Publisher Number:

99983200537

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.